Mary: Were ye bombed when ye were in the Faroes? Did the Germans come an attack you?

Roddie: Och, yes. There's some that did, aye. An we'd nothing but Bren guns to support ourselves, aye, till near when we was leaving - '42 when we came home. Mm-hmm. But they had guns then, besides Bren guns.

Interviewer: Mm-hmm.

Roddie: Aye. Mm-hmm.

Interviewer: What's a Bren gun?

Roddie: It's jist a machine gun - a very, very good machine gun. I think it shot fifteen bullets in a second or something like that. But they were - I mean they werena heavy enough to take doon a plane, but we did take one down, aye.

Mary: Remember that chappie MacVicar - he was here with Angie and Louis Cameron?

Roddie: Naw, Ah canna mind.

Mary: He was always on a boat, wasn't he? An as well as being a fluent Gaelic speaker he always spoke fluent Faroese. Is that right?

Roddie: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mary: I thought I heard that, but he was here -

Roddie: If they had Gaelic they could speak to the, you know, the Faroese language very good, aye.

Interviewer: So the Gaelic made it easier for them to - ?

Roddie: Oh it was. It was just the same, ye know -

Mary; It might have been, yes.

Interviewer: Mm-hmm.

Roddie: Mm-hmm, there were a whole company o Gaelic speaking people, aye.

Interviewer: Do you have any Gaelic?

Roddie: Not a word.

Interviewer: No.

Roddie: Not even a swear. No.

Interviewer: Uh-huh.

Roddie: But the swears was all probably the same.

Interviewer: Yeh, yeh. No doubt.

Roddie: Mm-hmm. But they were really nice people, aye, and we - there were an old man there - well he wasn't old but he was a cobbler - and he went to sweem every day, he swimmed every day and we go to know him. We - quite a lot of us went every day to sweem - summer and winter - the two winters we wis there.

Interviewer: Did you do any other sports while you were there to keep yourselves - ?

Roddie: Yes.

Interviewer: Football or ?

Roddie: We played football.

Interviewer: Mm-hmm.

Roddie: But it was that rough an all that that ye couldna do anything else. We did a little shootin of the birds an things but not much, an we had a range - ye know - a shooting range.